Meanings
present singular third person energizes · participle present energizing · participle past energized · past energized · alternative energise
- transitiveTo invigorate; to make energetic.
1 more example
Magazines of the day celebrated the new gay health consciousness in articles which linked the proliferation of gay bodybuilding with the health craze sweeping the country, though this was often complete nonsense. For did we not, all of us, know scores of friends who used drugs to energize their workouts, who smoked dope, took speed, and shot up anabolic steroids to facilitate that mad, muscular frenzy?
1986, Paul Reed, “Serenity”, in Eric E. Rofes, editor, Gay Life: Leisure, Love, and Living for the Contemporary Gay Male, page 9 - transitiveTo supply with energy, especially electricity; to turn on power to (something).
Whenever we energize that circuit we blow a fuse.
- intransitiveobsoleteTo use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflect and judge afterwards.
1881, John Campbell Shairp, Aspects of Poetry
Synonyms & antonyms
verbcause to be alert and energetic
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
- Ancient Greekἐν (en)
- Ancient Greekἐν- (en-)
- Proto-Indo-European*werǵ-
- Proto-Indo-European*wérǵom
- Proto-Hellenic*wérgon
- Ancient Greekἔργον (érgon)
- Ancient Greekἐνεργός (energós)
- Ancient Greekἐνεργής (energḗs)
- Ancient Greekἐνέργεια (enérgeia)
- Late Latinenergīa
- Middle Frenchénergie
- Englishenergy
- Englishenergize
Translations
Arabic نَشَّطَ, قَوَّى
- نَشَّطَ (naššaṭa)to invigorate, to make energetic
- قَوَّى (qawwā)to invigorate, to make energetic
Bulgarian стимулирам, възбуждам
- стимулирам (stimuliram)to invigorate, to make energetic
- възбуждам (văzbuždam)to invigorate, to make energetic
Finnish elävöittää, elvyttää
- elävöittääto invigorate, to make energetic
- elvyttääto invigorate, to make energetic
- piristääto invigorate, to make energetic
- virkistääto invigorate, to make energetic
- energisoidato invigorate, to make energetic
- johtaa virtato supply with energy, especially electricity
- kytkeä virtato supply with energy, especially electricity
- kytkeä sähkötto supply with energy, especially electricity
- sähköistääto supply with energy, especially electricity
Irish fuinnmhigh, fuinnmhigh
- fuinnmhighto invigorate, to make energetic
- fuinnmhighto supply with energy, especially electricity
Italian energizzare, rinvigorire
- energizzareto invigorate, to make energetic
- rinvigorireto invigorate, to make energetic
- rafforzareto invigorate, to make energetic
- dare energiato supply with energy, especially electricity
Portuguese estimular, energizar
- estimularto invigorate, to make energetic
- energizarto supply with energy, especially electricity
Romanian energizare
- energizareto invigorate, to make energetic
Russian возбужда́ть, активизи́ровать
- возбужда́ть (vozbuždátʹ)to invigorate, to make energetic
- активизи́ровать (aktivizírovatʹ)to invigorate, to make energetic
- усиливать (usilivatʹ)to invigorate, to make energetic
- подава́ть напряже́ние (podavátʹ naprjažénije)to supply with energy, especially electricity
- включа́ть ток (vključátʹ tok)to supply with energy, especially electricity
- подава́ть пита́ние (podavátʹ pitánije)to supply with energy, especially electricity
- включа́ть напряже́ние (vključátʹ naprjažénije)to supply with energy, especially electricity
Spanish jumpear, energizar
- jumpearto invigorate, to make energetic
- energizarto supply with energy, especially electricity
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Cite this entry
energize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/energize
“energize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/energize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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